Bill Gates: Corona Virus Will Not Forget Even If It Is Over

Bill Gates: Corona Virus Will Not Forget Even If It Is Over

Bill Gates, Microsoft MSFT, -1.21% Co-founder and co-chair of the Gates Foundation, who shared his latest thoughts about the coronavirus pandemic in an 11-page note cited by the Seattle Foundation, made some statements. The good news is that we can look forward to a "semi-normal" world for the next two months. "People can go out, but not often, they can't go to crowded places," Gates wrote. “Illustrated restaurants that place people only on all other tables and planes where the middle seats are empty.” He said he believed that schools would reopen, but stadiums would not. "The basic principle should be to allow activities that benefit the economy or human well-being, but create a small risk of infection," Gates said. In a separate piece for the economist, the tech billionaire said that when historians write books on the pandemic, they will only get the first third of what we have experienced so far. "Much of the story will be after that." He wrote. “Even though governments lift orders for on-site housing and businesses reopen their doors, people have a natural reluctance to expose themselves to diseases. There will be no crowds at the airports. Sports will be played basically in empty stadiums. And the world economy will be depressed because demand will remain low. " He said that he hopes that life will return to normal only when most of the population is vaccinated, and it may take some time, but someone will be in mass production in the second half of 2021. "If this is the case, Gates will have a success with history: the fastest humanity has gone from recognizing a new disease to vaccinating against it," Gates said.